Introduction: Training courses, tutorials and seminars (co-)authored/presented by Jeff Allen.

About Jeff Allen

Jeff's biosketch is here (in separate browser window) at his Web portal and also here (in separate browser window) at the MultiLingual Computing Web site.

Areas of expertise

Domains

• Telecom
• Computer science
• Construction and Agribusiness heavy-machinery
• Engines
• Automotive

Jeff Allen has already previously delivered the following training sessions

Translation software

Allen, Jeffrey. 2004. Mastering Machine Translation output: MT dictionary building and postediting. Tutorial presented at the 6th Biennal Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2004), Washington DC, USA, 28 Sept - 2 Oct 2004. click here for more information

Allen, Jeffrey. 2003. Translation Software Training Tutorial: MT dictionary building and postediting with Reverso Pro 5 and Reverso Expert (Promt 5). Presented 8 July 2003 at Mycom France.

Allen, Jeffrey. 2003. Post-editing. In Computers and Translation: A Translators Guide. Edited by Harold Somers. Benjamins Translation Library, 35. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (ISBN 90 272 1640 1). click here for information on the book and chapter. This book chapter is currently being used in various academic MT training programs.

Allen, Jeffrey. 2003. Machine Translation Postediting. Tutorial presented at European Association for Machine Translation and Controlled Language Applications Workshop (EAMT/CLAW2003). 17 May 2003. Dublin City University, Ireland.

Allen, Jeffrey. 2003. Translation Software Tutorial: MT dictionary building and postediting with Reverso Pro 4 (Promt 98). Presented April 2003 at Life Agape International.

Allen, Jeffrey. 1997-1998. Translation training and on-the-job mentoring: creating human translated textual and terminology databases to train machine translation systems. DIPLOMAT MT project Translation Laborabory. Language Technologies Institute / Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University.

Allen, Jeffrey and Greg Gouzev. 1996. Translation system training course. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department, Caterpillar Inc. July 1996.

Technical writing and Controlled language principles

Allen, Jeffrey. forthcoming. Pre-editing principles for Machine Translation workflows. Tutorial to be presented at the 6th Biennal Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2004), Washington DC, USA, 28 Sept - 2 Oct 2004. click here for more information

Allen, Jeffrey and Paula Johnson. 1995. Caterpillar Technical English (CTE) training guide. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department, Caterpillar Inc. September 1995.

Johnson, Paula and Jeffrey Allen. 1995. Caterpillar Technical English (CTE) controlled language reference manual. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department, Caterpillar Inc. September 1995.

Allen, Jeffrey. 1995. Practical grammar review course for Caterpillar Heavy-Machinery technical writing. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department, Caterpillar Inc. September - October 1995.

Computing skills and markup languages

Allen, Jeffrey, Paula Johnson, and Alan Williams. 1995-1996. Arbortext Adept Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) editor for technical writing and technical translation. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department, Caterpillar Inc. First edition: August 1995.

Allen, Jeffrey, Paula Johnson, and Alan Williams. 1995-1996. Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) Reference Guide for New Authoring: a Caterpillar New Authoring Training Guide. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department, Caterpillar Inc. First edition: August 1995.

Academic and Private Training Programs

Allen, Jeffrey. Fall 1994. Langue française - première année. Department of French and Italian, Indiana University. Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

Allen, Jeffrey. 1993-1994. Customized Private Language courses (English and French) for Professional Managers/Executives. Many domains (Insurance, Medical, Pharmaceutical, etc). Executive Language Services, Paris, France.

Allen, Jeffrey. June - September 1992. Introduction à la Linguistique. Société Internationale de Linguistique. Lamorlaye, France.

Allen, Jeffrey. June - September 1992. La Sociolinguistique et la Linguistique Appliquée. Société Internationale de Linguistique. Lamorlaye, France.

Allen, Jeffrey. May 1992. Survival French. Département de Communication. Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon. Ecully, France.

Allen, Jeffrey. 1988-1989, 1990-1991, Summer 1991. Langue française - première année. Department of Modern Languages. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Technologies / Computing skills

• Environments: MS 98/NT4/2000/ME/XP, Unix, Linux, Mac OS 8, client/server Java-based distributed computing
• Network Information Management System / Business Intelligence tools (telecommunications domain): NIMS-PrOptima
• Authoring guidelines and tools: Expert analyst of corporate and industrial writing guidelines and controlled language checkers (Caterpillar CTE, Nortel Networks NSE, General Motors Global English and CASL, AECMA Simplified English, Simplus v1, etc)
• Machine Translation (MT) tools: Expert on many major commercial software and several government and industrial funded systems: Reverso Pro v4 & Pro/Expert v5, SYSTRAN Professional Premium v4 and v5, PROMT XT @promt (v6, v6.5, v7) Standard, Office, Professional & Expert; CMU KANT AMT system; CMU DIPLOMAT MEMT system; LEC MagellanPro Translation 2005
• Translation Memory (TM) tools: Very familiar with several commercial software applications: Wordfast 4, Trados Workbench, Atril Déjà Vu, SDL SDLX, @promt Associated Memory; Similus v1 and v1.4
• Project Management: MS Project 2000
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM): HEAT, Clarify, GNATS
• Version Management software: Perforce P4
• XML / SGML / HTML editors: Arbortext Adept 5, JBuilder, MS FrontPage, EMACS
• Spreadsheet applications: MS Excel 97/2000/2002/2003
• Presentation tools: MS Powerpoint 97/2000/2002/2003, Lotus Camcorder 97, TechSmith Camtasia screen recorder
• Desktop publishing applications: MS Word 97/2000/2002/2003, Adobe Framemaker 6, Adobe Acrobat 4 & 5, Quark Xpress 4
• Image and Design publishing tools: MS Visio 2000, JASC Paint Shop Pro 6/7, Adobe Photoshop 6

Contact information

Jeff Allen can be reached at j e f f . a l l e n @ f r e e . f r for inquiries.

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Last revision date: 06 July 2007
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